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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Rash of 5,000 False-Positive Prisoner Drug Tests Going to California Parole Board Anyway by For most of 2024, drug tests performed on California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners returned a positive rate for opioids in a narrow range between 6.6% and 6.8%. But in May 2024, the rate …
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Push to Digitize Rikers Island Mail Based on Faulty Drug Tests by Since 2022, New York City’s Department of Correction (DOC) has warned that its Rikers Island jail complex was swamped with letters soaked in fentanyl and other contraband drugs. As a result, DOC officials called to follow the state …
New York Revises 2,772 Prisoner Disciplinary Records After Inspector General Finds Defects in Another Contraband Drug Test by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A November 2023 report by the New York Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailed grave defects uncovered by an investigation into the Contraband Drug Testing Program …
Class-­Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC by A suit filed in Washington state court on September 22, 2023, challenges disciplinary sanctions imposed on prisoners by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) based on presumptive drug test results. DOC uses inexpensive colorimetric drug tests to examine …
Prisoner Health Update: K2 by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Drugs are ubiquitous behind prison walls, but screening of items sent to prisoners and random drug testing incentivizes the use of substances difficult to detect and easy to conceal. Synthetic cannabinoids, known under numerous monikers such as K2 …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
New York OIG Report Reveals 1,600 State Prisoners Punished Over Faulty Drug Tests by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the State of New York released a report on January 4, 2022, concluding its “Investigation of New York State Department of Corrections …
Publication • 2022
NM Legislative Finance Committe-Performance Report Card 3rd Qtr, 2022 NEW MEX I CO LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE Submitted by agency? Yes Timeline assigned? No Responsibility assigned? No Indexed to FY09 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Corrections Department Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2022 Corrections Department ACTION PLAN New Mexico Prison Population PERFORMANCE …
Publication • 2022
NM Legislative Finance Committe-Performance Report Card 3rd Qtr, 2022 (1) NEW MEX I CO LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE Submitted by agency? Yes Timeline assigned? No Responsibility assigned? No Indexed to FY09 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Corrections Department Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2022 Corrections Department ACTION PLAN New Mexico Prison Population …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Drug Testing, junk science
Unreliable Drug Tests Standard for Law Enforcement and Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Illicit drugs pose a serious problem for both prisoners and officials inside America’s prisons and jails. To combat smuggling, many state and federal prisons use field test kits to evaluate substances introduced into the facilities. …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Massachusetts Department of Corrections Sued Over Use of “Fake” Drug Tests on Legal Mail by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) has been knowingly using drug tests described by plaintiff’s lawyers as “fake” on legal mail to both interfere with attorney/client communications and impose …
Brief • August 10, 2021
Wills v. Microgenics Corporation, NY, Memorandim Decision and Order, Drug Testing, 2021 Case 1:20-cv-04432-BMC-VMS Document 71 Filed 08/10/21 Page 1 of 15 PageID #: 925 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------- X : RUBEN WILLS, : : MEMORANDUM DECISION Plaintiff, : AND ORDER : - against …
Brief • July 28, 2021
Green v. MA DOC, MA, Class Action Complaint, Fake Drug Tests, 2021 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Suffolk, ss. JULIAN GREEN, EUGENE IVEY, JAMES P. MCKENNA, and LISA NEWMANPOLK, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, CAROL MICI, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of …
Brief • August 5, 2020
Steffey v. Salazar, 9th Circuit, Opening Brief of Appellant, Loss of Good Conduct Time, 2020 Case: 20-35493, 08/05/2020, ID: 11778893, DktEntry: 4, Page 1 of 43 No. 20-35493 ____________________ UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ____________________ BILLY STEFFEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. J. SALAZAR, Warden, Respondent-Appellee. ____________________ Appeal from …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
NY State Prisons Finally Stop Using Faulty Drug Testing Equipment; Class Action Lawsuit Filed by Victims by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Nadezda Steele-Warrick, a prisoner at Albion Correctional Facility, was on the right track. After her 2015 conviction for assault, she had been a model prisoner, obtaining her …
Brief • September 27, 2019
Liebich v. IDOC, IL, Settlement, Medical Malpractice, 2019 Official Case# Received Case Name Appeal number: Doc Staff: Appellate Court: AG (Appeal): Judge (Appeal) : Status STA TE OF ILLINOlS - DEPART MENT OF CORRECTIONS-LEGAL SERVICES SETTLEMENT CASE CLOSURE FORM L 1-e..~\C ~\h Case Name: 'J. Ou( Case N·umber: ~ \ …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Washington: Prisoners’ Complaints Lead to Changes in DOC’s Drug Testing Policy by Chad Marks by Chad Marks After two unidentified prisoners complained that they were being punished based on faulty drug test results, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) made changes to its testing policies. One prisoner was subjected to …
Brief • January 11, 2019
Liebich v. IDOC, IL, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2019 Case: 1:19-cv-00242 Document#. 1 Filed: 01/11/19 Page 1 of 24 PagelD #.1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISON RANDY R. LIEBICH, Plaintiff, v. Case No. - - - - - - ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF …
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
BOP’s Violation of Alcohol Policy Ends in Expungement, Reversal of Disciplinary Sanctions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) violation of its own alcohol policy prompted the expungement of disciplinary reports and reversal of sanctions imposed on two prisoners after they challenged their disciplinary convictions in …
Irizarry v. Ring, OH, Settlement, Illegal Strip Search, 2018 Exhibit A IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION JOSE IRIZARRY, Plaintiff, v. LIEUTENANT RING, et al., Defendants. : : : : : : : : : Case No. 2:17-cv-00744 Judge Michael H. Watson …
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